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The Wednesday Play Season 6 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Wednesday, August 6, 1969

Ended: Wednesday, May 27, 1970

When does The Wednesday Play Season 6 come out?

The Wednesday Play Season 6 premiered Wednesday, August 6, 1969 on BBC One and ended Wednesday, May 27, 1970. The season has 34 episodes.

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The Wednesday Play Season 6 release schedule

The Wednesday Play Season 6 episode release dates
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1. The Parachute

Wednesday · 57 years ago

2. Pitchi Poi

Wednesday · 57 years ago

3. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel

A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.

Wednesday · 57 years ago

4. Patterson O.K.

A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

Wednesday · 57 years ago

5. The Mark II Wife

A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

Wednesday · 57 years ago

6. Close the Coalhouse Door

The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

Thursday · 57 years ago

7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury

A schoolmaster takes to drink.

Thursday · 57 years ago

8. All Out for Kangaroo Valley

Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

Wednesday · 57 years ago

9. Happy

The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

Wednesday · 57 years ago

10. There Is Also Tomorrow

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

Wednesday · 57 years ago

11. The Compartment/Playmates

In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther

Wednesday · 56 years ago

12. Blood of the Lamb

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

13. The Vortex

Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

14. It Wasn't Me

A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

15. The Season of the Witch

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

16. Mille Miglia

Wednesday · 56 years ago

17. The Hunting of Lionel Crane

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

19. Mad Jack

Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

Wednesday · 56 years ago

20. Nathan and Tabileth

A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

21. The Italian Table

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace

Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

23. The Cellar and the Almond Tree

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

24. The Year of the Sex Olympics

Wednesday · 56 years ago

25. No Trams to Lime Street

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law

Wednesday · 56 years ago

27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins

Wednesday · 56 years ago

28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is

Wednesday · 56 years ago

29. Wine of India

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

30. Sovereign's Company

A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

31. Party Games

Wednesday · 56 years ago

32. Emma's Time

Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

33. Chariot of Fire

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

Wednesday · 56 years ago

34. Wind Vs. Polygamy Finale

Wednesday · 56 years ago

The Wednesday Play Season 6 guest stars

  • Guy Middleton

    Guy Middleton

  • Philip Latham

    Philip Latham

  • Richard Caldicot

    Richard Caldicot

  • Barry Humphries

    Barry Humphries

  • Roland Culver

    Roland Culver

    Arthur Maybury

  • John Savident

    John Savident

    Mr. Brummitt

  • Jeffrey Segal

    Mr. Dumpton

  • Jeremy Child

    Jeremy Child

    2nd Man

  • Patrick Barr

    Patrick Barr

    David Lancaster

  • David McKail

    David McKail

    Bruce Fairlight

  • Michael Jayston

    Michael Jayston

    Siegfried Sassoon

  • Ann Beach

    Ann Beach

    Music Hall Artiste

  • Rosemary Leach

    Rosemary Leach

    Shelley Mitchell

  • Jimmy Gardner

    Jimmy Gardner

    Stanley Wood

  • Frank Mills

    Frank Mills

    Prison Gate Officer

  • Margaret Leighton

    Margaret Leighton

    Florence Lancaster

The Wednesday Play Season 6 FAQ

When does The Wednesday Play Season 6 come out?

The Wednesday Play Season 6 premiered Wednesday, August 6, 1969 on BBC One.

How many episodes are in The Wednesday Play Season 6?

The Wednesday Play Season 6 has 34 episodes.

Are new episodes of The Wednesday Play Season 6 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the The Wednesday Play Season 6 finale?

The The Wednesday Play Season 6 finale (Episode 34) aired Wednesday, May 27, 1970.

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